Without This Thing Called "NAMI", Where Would a Family Turn?
Our "Loved One" lives in Illinois and is suffering with deep depression as a result of a very hostile divorce including dispute over custody of her two small children, ages three and seven.
Alerted to NAMI and encouraged by her loving and concerned Sister, a Nurse Practitioner who lives and practices in California - and who sought out NAMI DuPage on-line from California! - the Loved One's immediate Family (Father, Step-mother, Maternal Mother and Sister during her visit to Illinois) together attended the opening class of NAMI DuPage's "Family to Family" in Naperville. This "Family to Family" class is now in its eighth week, and both the Family and the Sister regularly attend "Family to Family" classes, three of us in Naperville, one of us in California.
As the "Family to Family" programs progress, we Family members regularly share with each other and continue to learn and understand the nature and treatment of Mental Illness.
NAMI has certainly been a blessing for each of us, as well as for our Loved One.
... from a Loving Family, in "Family to Family"
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